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Rows of hot sauaces on display at the Chili Pepper Festival in Bowers, PA

Bowers Chile Pepper Festival

The hottest food festival in Berks County is the Chile Pepper Festival. Held annually the first Friday and Saturday in September at William DeLong Park in Bowers, the Chile Pepper Festival brings in vendors from across the region for samples and sales of their hot sauces, seasonings, pepper-infused foods and drinks, and more.

The event also features a jalapeno eating contest, live music and entertainment, and more.

There is no admission, but the sugggested donation in 2025 was $4.00.

Vendors

More than 100 vendors took part in the 2025 event. 2026 Vendors will be announced closer to the event.

2026 Vendor List

– 1 Love Jerk Hut
– 22 Peppers
– 9 Rings Hot Pepper
– Angry Goat Pepper Co.
– Angry Irishman
– Ass on Fire
– Black-Eyed Susan Spice
– Bo’s Honey Brown
– Boyd’s Cardinal Hollow Winery
– Burning Hell Hot Sauce
– Cactus Pete’s Homemade Jerky
– Carl’s Kickin’ Chili
– Chef Fritz Brand
– Chef Shef’s Catering
– Christ Delong Church
– CJ’s Market Table
– Cooney’s Mountain Mustard
– Crumbly Kitchen
– Cutco
– Danger Sauce
– Defcon Sauces
– Don Don Diablo
– Earth Quake Spices
– Faiya
– Family Dinners Made Easy
– Fat Head Peppers
– Gemini Grow
– Goat Head Sauces
– Goshenhoppen Run
– Got Chocolate
– Gourmet Crations
– Green Kamikozees
– Habby Fruit
– Harmony Hot Sauce
– Health Delight Cooking Oil and Peanut Butter
– Heckler Hot Sauce
– Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce
– High River Sauces
– Holy Smoke
– Hook and Arrow
– Hot Graham Sauce
– Inferno Phil’s Outpost
– It Is Spicy
– Jack’s Pepper Heist
– JD Gourmet
– Jelly Goat
– Jersey Barnfire
– Joe’s Famous Lemonade
– Johnny Tornado
– Lee’s Homemade
– Little Dicks Sauces
– Loving Imprints
– Lynd’s Ladys
– Mama’s Lama’s
– Mastodon
– Matt Hat Beef Jerky
– Monkey Business Flavored Peanuts
– Monster Joe’s Sauces
– Not Joe Mamma’s Hot Sauce
– Old Grumpy Mark’s
– One by One
– Papperdelles Pasta
– Peter Piper’s Pickle Palace
– Philly Jawns Jawndiments
– Pilsudski Mustard
– Popcorn Pit
Pretzel Revolution
– Rainbow Concoctions
– Revolutionary Hot Sauce
– Rocky’s Hot Sauce
– Rolling Hill Farm
– Saratoga Peanut Buter
– Schaeffer Catering
– Scotch Sauce
Scott’s Gyro Box
– ScoValley Hot Sauce
– SD Sauce
– Sh Mokin Taco
– Snacking LLC
– Sou Pasta
– Spice Beast
– Spotted Horse
Spuds
– Steer Snacks
– Swarmbustin Honey
– Sweet 717
– The Chefs Duds by Deb
– The Hawg House
– Thunder Flash Hot Sauce
– Tinkertown Provisions
– TO’s
– Torchbearer Sauces
– Twisted Twins Salsa
– Two-Can Kettle Corn
– Whitehouse Station Sauce
– Wholly Chipotle
– Your Chocolate Guys

Berks County Eats Review

Food & Festivals: Bowers Chile Pepper Festival

The heat was oppressive as we walked around William DeLong Park. In a cruel twist, Mother Nature had brought on a late-summer heat wave just in time for the Bowers Chile Pepper Festival. Just in case the peppers weren’t hot enough, the midday sun ensured that we were feeling the heat, and I cursed myself…

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